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CURRICULUM VITAE

Personal Details:

Family Name Hamza

Surname Hala

Date of Birth 02/08/1959

Present Address 82 Mohi El Din Aboul Ezz

Dokki- Cairo – Egypt

Email hala_hamza@cu.edu.eg

Civil Status married, 2 sons

Education and Qualifications:

- Graduated from the German School in Egypt with distinction grade 1977.

- Passed the ECFMG Medical examination in July, 1983.

- Graduated from Cairo University, Faculty of Medicine in November, 1983 and was signed up Excellent with Honors.

- Obtained Master Degree of Pediatrics, Cairo University,

November 1986 and was signed up Excellent.

- Obtained M.D. of Pediatrics in November 1991.

Previous Appointments:-

- House officer for 12 months from 1/3/1984 till 28/2/1985

(attended 2 months in each of the following departments:

Pediatrics-Emergency and Burns – General Surgery – Obstetrics and Gynecology – Internal medicine –

Ophthalmology).

- Resident in Cairo University – Pediatric Hospital from

15/3/1985 until 15/3/1988.

- Assistant lecturer at the Cairo University Pediatric Hospital

from 15/5/1988 till 28/2/1992.

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- Lecturer of Pediatrics at Cairo University since 29/4/1992 until

25/6/1997.

- Assistant Professor of Pediatrics at Cairo University from 25/6/1997 until 26/6/2002.

Present Appointment:-

- Professor of Pediatrics at Cairo University since 26/6/2002 until

now.

- Head of Rheumatic fever clinic at the Center for Social and Preventive Medicine, Cairo University

University Thesis for Master AND Docterate Degree:

- “ Red cell Folate And Serum Folic Acid In Thalassemia Major ”

thesis submitted in partial fulfillment of the Msc Degree in Pediatrics

- “ Polymorphunclear Leukocyte Function In Infants and Children with Congenital Heart Disease Before And After Open

Heart Surgery ” thesis submitted in partial fulfillment of M.D.

Degree in Pediatrics

Specialty:

Pediatric Cardiologist

The Pediatric Cardiology center of the New Children Pediatric

Hospital, which I joined since the last year of my residency is a

referral center for congenital, rheumatic heart diseases and

cardiomyopathy cases and is one of the few centers in Egypt

equipped with the help of the Japan International Cooperation

Agency (JICA) in a manner enabling doctors to deal with the

very critical neonate, infant or child with a heart problem.

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Training:

- Training by Dr. Kato, a pediatric cardiologist assigned from

the JICA office as part of a project to upgrade the Cairo Hospital Pediatric Cardiology unit. The training involved

echocardiography and cardiac catheterization.

- 2 months in June and July 1995 as a visiting doctor in the Pediatric cardiology center of the University of Freiburg in

Germany under supervision of Professor Dr. Rolf Mocellin.

- Training in the National Cardiovascular Center (NCVC) in

Osaka in Japan from September 1995 until December 1995 in

Pediatric cardiology including echocardiography,

catheterization and fetal echocardiography.

- Training for 1 month in July 2000 as a visiting doctor in the

Heart Institute in Berlin to receive training in the new

modalities of interventional catheterization under supervision of Dr. Peter Lange, the head of the Pediatric cardiology unit

and Dr. Felix Berger, the chief interventional cardiologist.

- Training for 1 month in the Pediatric Cardiology Department

of Cologne University as a visiting doctor in June 2005, under

supervision of Professor Dr Konrad Brockmeier, director of

the Pediatric Cardiology Department to upgrade my knowledge about the recent modalities in interventional

cardiac catheterization.

International and National Conferences and Seminars Attendance:-

I- International Conferences:

- XXII World congress of the International Society for

cardiovascular Surgery which was held from September 10,

1995 to September 14, 1995 in Kyoto, Japan.

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- The Tokyo Symposium on Pediatric Cardiology and Pediatric

Cardiac Surgery held on October 30 - November 1, 1995 Tokyo, Japan.

- The 23rd International Congress of Pediatrics, the 2nd International congress on Pediatric nursing, September 9-14,

2001 Beijing, China.

- The 27 UMEMPS Congress, Alicante 19th-20st

September,2002

- The 28 UMEMPS Congress, Marakesh 18th-21st

September,2003

II- National:

1. The 1st Egyptian International Pediatric Cardiology

Conference, November 4-6, 1992.

2. 14th Annual Scientific Conference of Mansoura University. June, 1993. Mansoura Egypt.

3. 2nd Annual Meeting of the Egyptian Society of Cardiology, April 2-7, 1995.

4. 19th International Annual Ain Shams Medical Congress, February 26-29, 1996.

5. The first Franco Egyptian Conference on perinatal and fetal

medicine, March 16-16th, 1996.

6. 8th Annual Kasr El Aini Medical Congress April 3rd – 5th,

1996.

7. Egyptian Society of Hepatology 14th Annual Meeting May 8-10th, 1996.

8. Healthy Mother, Healthy Child by the Year 2000 National Conference, June 20-22nd, 1996.

9. First Pan Arab Pediatric Nephrology Congress December 3-6th, 1996.

10. International Congress of the Department of Pediatrics

Faculty of Medicine – Cairo University April 30th- May 1st, 1998 “Epidemiology of Pediatric Infectious Diseases”.

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11. The combined International Annual Congress of the Pediatric

Department on: “Progress in Medical Education in Pediatrics” Kasr El Aini Conference, May 6-7, 1999. Cairo –

Egypt.

12. The 3rd National meeting of the Egyptian Echocardiography working group September 29th – October 1st, 1999.

13. 1st Annual Congress of Egyptian Society of Pediatric

Nephrology and Transplantation, 1st ESPNT Congress Nephrotoxicity, February 17 – 18, 2000. Cairo.

14. The Combined International Annual Congress of the Pediatric Department Faculty of Medicine – Cairo University

Main Topics “New Technologyies in Pediatric Education”

April 4th and 5th 2000.

15. 11th Regional meeting of the Egyptian Society of Pediatric Cardiologists, which was held on the 4th of May 2000 at Ain

Shams University.

16. CME Accredited Golden Jubilee Congress of the Egyptian

Society of Cardiology, February 18-23, 2001, Cairo, Egypt.

17. The Annual Conference of the Pediatrics Department,

Faculty of Medicine-Cairo University, April 7th – 8th, 2001,

18. The 14th Regional Meeting of Pediatric Cardiac Interventions January 3rd 2002.

19. The 29th Annual International Conference of the Egyptian Society of Cardiology, 4th – 8th February 2002 Alexandria

Egypt.

20. European Pediatric life support (EPLS) course, Cairo,

December 3rd – 4th , 2005

21. Annual Seminar on Infective Endocarditis, Cairo 14th

of Februrary,2006

22. 11th annual meeting of the working group on interventional cardiology, Pediatric cardiac

interventions 2006, Cairo, 21st of November, 2006

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23. 2nd Annual Scientific Meeting of the Cardiology

Department –Dar Al Fouad Hospital , Challenges In Cardiology, Cairo, 2-3 May 2007

List of Research Experience:

Status of the

Research (Ongoing

or Completed)

Donor

(National

or

Internation

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PI/CI Project title

Completed International PI Development of a Clinical Prediction Instrument for Group A Streptococcal Pharyngitis (GRASP) in Children

Completed International PI Treatment of Pharyngitits Study

(TOPS): A Randomized Equivalence Trial of Intramuscular VS. Oral Antibiotics for the Treatment of Streptococcal Pharyngitis in Children in Developing Countries

Completed International Consultant The role of selected gene mutations in the pathogenesis of congenital heart disease in Egypt.”

List of Papers Published or Presented at Conferences

Early experience with Surgical Management of

Coarctation and Aortic Arch Anomalies. Presented

at the 1st Egyptian International Pediatric Cardiology

Conference, November 2-4, 1992.

Pattern of Pulmonary Arborization in Pulmonary

Atresia with Ventricular Septal Defect. Published

In The New Egyptian Journal of Medicine Vol. 9, No. 6

1993.

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Safe Approach to VSD Closure in Pediatrics.

Published In The New Egyptian Journal Of Medicine

Vol. 9, No. 6, 1993.

The Haemodynamic Effect of Propofal versus

Ketamine in Children Undergoing Cardiac

Catheterization. Published In the Egyptian Journal Of

Anaesthesia Vol, 10, No. 2, July, 1994.

Transatrial, Transpulmonary Repair of Tetrollogy

of Fallot. Hesham Shawky, Hala Hamza, Azza, Ezzat,

Salah Sarhan & Hoda Abd El Kader. Published in the

Journal of the Egyption Syndicate Vol. 7, No. 4, October 1994.

Coxachie Virus B3 Infection as an Implication

Agent of Acute Myocardities in Neonates with

Hyaline Membrane Disease. Presented in the 1st

Egyptian Society Of Cardiology 22nd Conference, April,

1995.

Balloon Atrial Septostomy for Simple

Transposition of the Great Arteries. Presented in the

1st Egyptian Society Of Cardiology 22nd Conference,

April, 1995.

The Therapeutic Effects of ACE Inhibitors in the

Control of Heart Failure Due to Ventricular Septal

Defect. Presented in the 1st Egyptian Society Of

Cardiology 22nd Conference, April, 1995.

Management OF Pharyngitis in the ARI Program

of the Ministry Of Health in Egypt. Presented In Ain

Shams 19th International Medical Congress, February 26-

29, 1996.

Evaluation of Fetal Structural Heart Diseases

Using COLOUR Flow Mapping. A lecture presented

in the First Franco Egyptian Conference On Perinatal And Fetal Medicine, March 16 – 17, 1996

Restrictive Left Ventricular Filling Pattern in

Dilated Cardiomyopathy In the Pediatric Age

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Group–Clinical, Echocardiographic And Doppler

Correlation. Published In the Gazette Of The Egyptian

Pediatric Association Vol. 44, No. 2, January and June,

1996.

Anomalous Systemic and Pulmonary Venous

Connection in Association with Congenital Heart

Disease. Fadia Mahmoud, Hala Hamza, Salwa Omran,

Hala Hussein & Zeinab Salah. Published in the Egyptian Heart Journal Vol. 42, No. 1, January & June 1996.

Clinical Profile in Patient with Tricuspid Atersia. Ahmed Aboel Hassan, Fadia Mahmoud, Hala Hamza, and

Mohamed Mekhaimr. Published in the Journal of Arab

Child Vol. 7, No. 1, March 1996.

Assessment of the Pulmonary Artery Pressure in

Neonates Recovering From Respiratory Distress

Syndrome. Safinaz El-Maraghy, Fadia Mahmoud and

Hala Hamza. Published in the Journal of Arab Child Vol.

7, No. 1, March 1996.

The Clinical Profile of Transposition of the Great

Arteries Undergoing Rashkind Procedure. Hala

Hamza, Fadia Mahmoud, Mohamed A.El-Raouf and Khaled Mostafa. Published in the Journal of Arab Child

Vol. 7, No. 2, June 1996.

Possible Role of the T2 Subsets in Schistosomal

Hepatospenomegaly and Chronic Heptitis. Presented in Healthy Mother, Healthy Child By The Year

2000 National Conference, June, 1996.

Lipoproteins as a Risk Factor in Childhood

Strokes. Amina Hendawi, Lamia Mohsen, Hala Hamza

and Fayza Hussein. Published in the Journal of Arab

Child Vol. 7, No. 1, June 1996.

Prospective Evaluation of Clinical Guidelines for

Presumptive Treatment of Streptococcal

Pharyngitis in Egyptian Children. Mark C Steinhoff,

Mohamed Khail Abd El Khalek, Nagwa Khallaf, Hala Salah Hamza, Ahmed El Ayadi, Azza Orabi, Hala Fouad

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and Moamena Kamel. Presented In Healthy Mother,

Healthy Child By The Year 2000 National Conference, June 20-22nd, 1996.

Effectiveness of clinical guidelines for the

presumptive treatment of streptocococcal

pharyngitis in Egyptian Children. Mark C Steinhoff, Mohamed Khail Abd El Khalek, Nagwa Khallaf, Hala

Salah Hamza, Ahmed El Ayadi, Azza Orabi, Hala Fouad

and Moamena Kamel. Published in Lancent vol. 350,

September 27, 1997.

Direct Intrapulmonary Vs. Intravenous PGE1 Or

Intravenous Sodium Nitroprusside For

Management Of Postoperative Pulmonary

Hypertension Complicating Pediatrics With Left To Right Shunt Correction. Hanaa Aboel Nour, Salwa

Hafbawi, Emad Ibrahim and Hala Hamza. Published In

The Egyptian Journal Of Intensive Care Vol, 3, No. 1,

March 1998.

Sources of Pulmonary Blood Supply and Pattern of

Pulmonary Arborization in Egyptian infants and

Children with pulmonary Atresia, Ventricular

septal defect. Fadia Mahmoud, Fawzan Shaltout, Hala

Hamza and Zeinab Salah. Presented in the Congress of the Department of Pediatrics, Faulty of Medicine – Cairo

University April 30th – 1st May, 1998.

Morphological and Hemodynamic Consequences

after Percutaneous Balloon Valvuloplasty for

Pulmonary Stenosis: Intermediate-term Follow up. Rabha El-Shenawy, Hala Agha, Faten Abd El-Aziz and

Hala Hamza. Published in the Egyptian Heart Journal Vo.

51 No. 1 March 1999.

Assessment of Left Ventricular Wall Stress and

Function in Childhood Coarctation of the Aorta, an

Echocardiographic and Hemodynamic Study. Hala

Hamza, Salah Zaher, Nahed Fahmy and Mohamed Abdel Wahab. Published in the Gazette, Egypt, Paed

Association, Vol. 47, No. 2, April 1999.

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Balloon Atrial Septostomy under 2-Dimensional

Echocardiographic Guidance in Transposition of

Great Arteries: Experience of Children Hospital-

Cairo University. Khalil Abd El-Khalek, Salwa Omran,

Fadia Mahmoud, Hala Hamza, Hala Agha and Inas El-

Eleimy. Presented in the International Congress of the Pediatric Department on “Epidmiology of Pediatric

Infection Diseases” April 30th- May 1st, 1998.

Published in the Egyptian Heart Journal Vol. 51, No. 3

September 1999.

Three-Dimensional Echocardiography, Magnetic

Resonance Tomography and Tei Index as Novel

Non-Invasive Techniques in the Postoperative

Evaluation of Tetralogy of Fallot. Mohamed Abdel

Rahman; Mohamed Abdel Khalek ; Salwa Omran, Hala Hamza; Petter Lange and Mateias Gutberlet. Presented in

The Annual Conference of the Pediatric Department on

April, 7th – 8th, 2001.

Total Correction of Tetralogy of Fallot Guided by

Echocardiography. Hala Hamza; Moahmed Aboul Ezz

Hesham Shawky and Tarek El Tawil. Published in the

Egyptian Heart Journal Vol 53 No. 2 June 2001.

Prenatal detection of Congenital Heart Disease in

high Risk Pregnancies. Hala Hamza and Khaled Gaber. Published in the Journal of Neonatalology Vol. 2 No. 3 September 2001.

Cardiac Complications in Infants of Diabetic

Mothers and their Relation to Parameters of

Carbohydrate Metabolism. Hala Hamza, Lamia

Mohsen, Lamia Mansour, Neveen Abou El Seoad and

Hesham Hamza. Presented in Annual Congress of The

Pediatric Department on “Progress in Medial Education in

Pediatrics” May 6-7, 1999.

Presented in Annual Congress of Pediatrics Department on “New Technologies in Pediatric Education” April 4-5, 2000.

Published in the Journal of Neonatalology Vol. 3 No. 3 September 2001.

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Suitability for Primary Arterial Switch Operation

for Transposition of Great Arteries in Infants and

Young Children beyond 3 Weeks of Age. Hala

Hamza, Naglaa Abd El Rahman, Ahmed Kadah and

Nermin Ramy. Published in the Egyptian Heart Journal, Vol. 53, No. 4, December 2001.

Morphologic and Functional Cardiac

Abnormalities in Infants and Children with

Chronic Renal Failure. Hala Hamza, Lamia Mohsen,

Amal Mostafa and Sherif Galal. Presented in the Annual

Conference of Pediatrics Department on April 7th – 8th

2001. Published in the Egyptian Heart Journal Vol. 53

No. 4 December 2001.

Delivery room resuscitation and immediate

stabilization of the neonate with congenital heart

disease, lecture at the 6th Egyptian German Pediatric

Cardiology Workshop, Assiut 08.05.2008.

Catheter based interventions in congenital heart

disease, lecture at the Ramses Kick off Conference, 5th

and 6th of June 2010.

List of International publications

Effectiveness of clinical guidelines for the

presumptive treatment of streptococcal

pharyngitis in Egyptian children. Mark C

Steinhoff, Mohamed Khalil Abd El Khalek, Nagwa

Khallaf, Hala Salah Hamza, Ahmed El Ayadi, Azza

Orabi, Hala Fouad, Moamena Kamel. Published in The Lancet September 1997; Vol 350, 918-921.

Evaluation of the WHO clinical decision rule for

streptococcal pharyngitis. A W Rimoin, H S

Hamza, A Vince, R Kumar, C F Walker, R A Chitale, A L A da Cunha, S Qazi, M C Steinhoff. Published in

Arch. Dis. Child. 2005; 90; 1066-1070; originally

published online 7 June 2005; doi :10.1136/adc.2004.069120.

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A clinical decision rule for management of

streptococcal pharyngitis in low-resource setting. Mark C. STEINHOFF, Christa L. FISCHER WALKER,

Anne W. RIMOIN and Hala S. HAMZA. Published in Acta Pediatric 2005:94.

Comparison of clinical prediction rules for

management of pharyngitis in setting with

limited resources. Christa L. Fischer Walker, Anne W. Rimoin, Hala S. Hamza and Mark C. Steinhoff.

Published in The Journal of Pediatric 2006.

Role of the ECG in managing children with

suspected heart disease in the setting of limited

resources. Ahmed Elhewala, Hala Hamza, accepted as

a poster in the conference of the European society of

electrocardiography in Cologne 2006.

Stenting of the arterial duct in neonates and infants

with congenital heart disease and duct dependant

pulmonary blood flow: a multicentre experience of

65 patients.Udin ten Cate, Hamza H., Agha H., Kholi

V., Emmel M., Quresh S.A., Sreeram N., Rosenthal E., BrockmeierK, accepted as oral presentation in the 44th

annual conference of the Association of European

Pediatric Cardiology, May 26-29, 2010 in Innsbruck.

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Membership in Societies

1. Member in the Egyptian Society of Pediatrics.

2. Member of the Egyptian Society of Pediatric Cardiologists.

3. Member of the Pan Arab Group of Pediatric Cardiologists (PAGDA).

4. Member of the Egyptian Society of child health and care.

Activities

1. Foundation of the transesophageal echocardiography unit

in the Pediatric Cardiology department in Cairo University

which helped in further progressing with interventional

catheterization procedures requiring transoesophageal

monitoring. Training was offered to doctors from the

Pediatric Cardiology Department and from other hospitals.

2. Institution of the service of Intraoperative

transoesophageal echocardiography in the Pediatric

Hospital, Cairo University, whenever required by surgeons

during operations and training was offered to other

doctors.

3. Foundation of the Pediatric Cardiology Department of

Banhaa Specialized Pediatric Hospital which is

functioning on its own now.

4. Sharing in the founding of the Echocardiography service

for the Emergency Department of the Pediatric Hospital,

Cairo University.

5. Foundation of the pharyngitis clinic in the Center for

Social and Preventive Pediatrics, Cairo University for

proper treatment of pharyngitis, detection of streptococcal

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pharyngitis and proper treatment to prevent Rheumatic

fever.

6. Supervision of the Rheumatic fever, Rheumatic heart

disease Clinc in the Center for Social and Preventive

Medicine since 2004 concerned with secondary prophylaxis and follow up of Rheumatic heart disease

cases. It is as well a center for consultancy and a referral

center for all the other University hospitals.

7. Supervising the postoperative cardiothoracic intensive

care unit since the beginning of 2004 and until

March2007.

Conferences and Workshops organized:

The first 1st Egyptian International Pediatric Cardiology

Conference, Cairo , November 1992.

Shared in the organization of The 2nd Egyptian

International Pediatric Cardiology Conference, Cairo ,

November 2008.

The 1st Egyptian German Pediatric Cardiology

Workshop, Cairo, March 12th -16th , 2006, as part of the

Egyptian German scientific year activities. The main

topic of the workshop was: “Treatment of children with

complex congenital heart disease”.

The 2nd Egyptian German Workshop was also a part of

the activities of the Egyptian German scientific year activities. It took place in Cairo during the period from

23.03.2007 – 25.03.2007. The topic was: Management

of children with complex congenital heart disease.

The 3rd Egyptian German Pediatric Cardiology

Workshop, Cairo 7.07.2007-8.2007, as part of the activities of the Egyptian German scientific year. The

workshop involved catheter interventions in complex

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congenital heart disesae with a special emphasis on

stenting in peripheral arteries.

The 4t Egyptian German Pediatric Cardiology

Workshop, Cairo 1.12.2007- 2.12.2007, as part of the activities of the Egyptian German scientific year. The

workshop title: Pediatric Cardiac Catheter

Interventions: Stenting in Congenital Heart Disease.

The 5th Egyptian German Pediatric Cardiology

Workshop for interventional cardiac catheterization and pediatric cardiac surgery, Cairo 12.04.2008-

13.04.2008.

The 6th Egyptian German Pediatric Cardiology

Workshop, Assiut 08.05.2008, in collaboration with the

German academic exchange service. The workshop title: The Newborn with Congenital Heart Disease.

The 7th Egyptian German Pediatric Cardiology Workshop, Cairo 11.11.2008, in collaboration with the

German academic exchange service as part of the

science year follow up event. The workshop title: What is new in Pediatric Cardiology ?

The 8th Egyptian German Pediatric Cardiology

Workshop, Cairo, under patronage of the German academic exchange service The workshop title:'' The

new era of stem cells ''. The work shop was concerned

with highlighting the new era of stem cell research.

Ramses Kick off meeting , 13th of March 2010 ,

concerned with determining the work plan for Ramses (Reinforcement of the adult stem cell research area and

mobility through mobility and scientific networking .

Ramses Kick off conference , 5th and 6th of June 2010 ,titled : ''Stem cells from bench to heart" held in Cairo

Sheraton.

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